Question

Change the following statement in reported speech:
The boys said, "Hurray! we have won the match."
The boys exclaimed with joy __________. [Intermediate]

Answer 1

'The boy exclaimed with joy that they had won the match.'

This is the correct answer because in the indirect speech, 'hurray' is changed to ' exclaimed with joy', 'we' is changed to 'they' and 'have' to 'had'.

The verb in the given sentence is in present perfect tense. Therefore it changes to past perfect tense as we convert into reported speech.